The Red Bull Foxhunt took place in the hills of Machynlleth, Wales this weekend with the recently crowned World Champion, Rachel Atherton taking on 200 female mountain bikers.

The event took place over two days, with course practice and timed qualification runs taking place on Saturday 29th September, followed by the main event race on Sunday 30th September. Katie Wakeley was the first down the course, closely followed by Francie Arthur and Stacey Fisher. 200 riders made it down the course with Rachel Atherton managing to catch 39 riders and finished in 40th place.

ďMan on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match manís metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. The bicycle lifted manís auto-mobility into a new order, beyond which progress is theoretically not possible.Ē

I watched a Nature-type show on Netflix that said the most efficient method of locomotion for land mammals belonged to the kangaroo.

Let's put a kangaroo on a bicycle!!

On a treadmill!!!!

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The ride was a 3 amigos gray beard affair, punctuated by one taking of the Lords name. We were ripping along a leaf strewn, wet, rocky, muddy, rooty, side hill when I heard the guy behind me offend our Lord. His front tire had wandered out to the lip of the trail which totally gave way. He disengaged his feet and pushed off his handlebar leaving him standing in the trail with his bike tumbling down-slope.

Two riders kept going.

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